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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Pressure grows to extend uk steel import quotas - You Need To See This

Rolls of coiled steel
Tariffs on imports were first imposed by the EU in 2018, when the UK was still a member. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The government is facing pressure from the UK steel industry and Labour to extend metal import limits brought in after Brexit, after a warning that a flood of products could cost British producers £150m in lost sales.

The international trade minister, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, must decide by 30 June whether to keep “steel safeguards” set out last year or remove the import limits on five categories of products, which include tin mill products, steel quarto plates and wire rod.

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